SEC Litigation Releases (civil enforcement docket)

Dataset · US Securities and Exchange Commission · primary source ↗

Every civil enforcement action the SEC has filed since 1996 — 11,828 releases. Defendants in title; PDF complaints + final judgments + consent orders linked per release. The canonical 'you got caught' securities registry: fraud, insider trading, Ponzi schemes, registration violations, market manipulation, FCPA. Hidden behind sec.gov/litigation/litreleases (HTML, no JSON/RSS API). Activist funds, plaintiff law firms, FCPA reporters live on this data.

Source agency
US Securities and Exchange Commission
License
CC0 / US public domain
Coverage
11,828 releases (LR-14644 through LR-26555, 1996-2026)
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Keywords

SEClitigation releasecivil enforcementsecurities fraudinsider tradingPonzi schemeFCPAmarket manipulation

Provenance

Every record in this dataset can be traced back to its primary source at https://www.sec.gov/litigation/litreleases. Underlying content is a US federal government work (public domain under 17 USC §105); our derived data is licensed CC0 1.0.

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